yclmanager5, Author at Your Computer Lady

June 8, 2022 By yclmanager5

Email Marketing

Email marketing has the highest ROI of all forms of marketing, averaging about $42 in return for every $1 spent.

June 5, 2022 By yclmanager5

Internet Explorer Is Retired

As of June 15, 2002, IE is out of service.

If you try to open the program on your computer, you will get a message like this one:

You will still see the icon on your Start menu or taskbar. When you try to access it however, Microsoft Edge will open. In an upcoming Windows update, IE will completely disappear.

Good news! You can migrate your favorites, passwords and settings from IE to Edge. You may rarely find a website that will only work with IE – often older government or nonprofit sites. If you run across one of these sites, you can have Edge work in “IE Mode.”

Give Edge a Try

Competitive speed as Edge is leaner software than IE.
You can save text from a website in a Collection, not just bookmark pages.
You can set up a “My Feed” starting page with news, videos or content you prefer.
Simple privacy controls.
You can use tabs on the left side of your screen instead of only across the top.
“Immersive Reader” displays web pages in a cleaner, less distracting format.
You can use Chrome extensions since there are so many of them already out there instead of waiting for an Edge extension.
You can sync your Edge bookmarks, passwords, etc. to your phone whether Android or iOS.

June 1, 2022 By yclmanager5

Email Marketing

Optimize your time and budget. Costs associated with email marketing are very low and you can put emails on autopilot, yet stay personalized towards your subscribers.

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May 26, 2022 By yclmanager5

How and When To Back Up Your Data

Simply put, the more important the data

the more often you should back up

the more back up copies you should have.

EXAMPLES:

Pictures of my daily Wordle results

Back up once a quarter

One copy on a thumb drive is enough.

QuickBooks back ups for my company

Back up every 2 times I close the program

Keep a copy on my external hard drive and a copy on Dropbox

Payroll records

Back up after each payroll period

Keep a copy on my external hard drive and a copy on Dropbox

Not only can your hard drive go bad, your external hard drive, thumb drive or DVD can also go bad. So important data needs to be backed up in multiple places. For years, when the standard back up method was to a DVD, I kept one copy in my office and another copy in the trunk of my car. I figured the office and the car wouldn’t be destroyed at the same time!!

Now with online options, it’s even easier.

Thumb Drive

Large thumb drives allow you to back up all of your files or a major project quickly. The process is manual which means you have to discipline yourself to do the back ups.

External Hard Drive

BBBS can assist you with purchasing and configuring an external hard drive that sits in your office and automatically backs up your entire hard drive. If the computer hard drive goes, you can download everything you need from the external hard drive.

Online Back Up Services

There are multiple options for you. BBBS can assist you in choosing the best service and help you configure the settings.

One Drive is part of your Microsoft 365 account.
Drive is part of your Google account.
Dropbox is my favorite but there are many Software-As-A-Service (Saas) companies.

Email Marketing

Email drives purchases. According to a report from the Direct Marketing Association, 66 percent of consumers have made a purchase due to an email marketing message.

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